There's no rain for children

 While many adult visitors experience the rain as something unpleasant which is wetting their clothes and spoiling their hair, this unpleasantness brings puddles and some completely new ideas to the youngest visitors of the Festival. At the beginning of the puppet show Mishmash Bakery the parents barley managed to bring their offspring under the roof. The Adventure park stage was packed with little ones and as hard as it was to bring them to the stage, it was even harder to convince them to leave and visit another venue after the puppet show was over. Many adults remained seated after the play with nostalgia in their eyes. "The Mishmash Bakery is a legendary fairy tale about friendship, cooperation, honesty and also about selfish evilness and greed, which is tearing apart the society. I think that this kind of messages have to be delivered to the youngest," said Tadej Pišek, a member of Mini teater who is also a regular visitor at the Lent Festival. The story of the Mishmash Bakery represents the values and relationships in the Slovenian and broader society which have to be preserved and outdone at the same time. Svetlana Makarovič is a master of delivering those messages to the young audience and is therefore the natural choice. "The atmosphere here is great! Today we were looking to the clouds and thinking that we're going to have no audience. But Lent lives in the rain too!" commented the members of the theatre afterwards.

No less noise was coming from under the roof of the Art Camp stage where the youngest set designers, choreographers and the stars of the performance African sun fled to. The performance is the closing event of the dance and drummer workshop The expressive world of African culture, which was taking place at the same venue before. After dancing to the rhythm of the drums the children finished designing their own stage animals and habitats. "We have a story about the life of animals in Africa. I am an antelope, my friend is a lion," said the 10-year-old Lučka with a big smile. "We want to show the children how to make puppets, how to design a set and how to have fun staging a performance from the beginning to the end. We are having a great time and everyone in the park helped us," said the head of the project Neva Vrba, who was helping the children to cut out the last palm tree before the performance. The story is about African animals which due to snow and cold decided to make journey to the Paradise land. There lives Mother Nature who has the power to bring back the beloved African sun to the jungle and its inhabitants. The important message of the performance is about the beauty of creating and the care for nature and is important for children and adults.